PALO ALTO, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 1, 2015 —
Nest Labs, Inc. (
www.nest.com),
architect of the thoughtful home, today announced a number of updates to
the Works with Nest program, making it the most comprehensive platform
for developers building connected home products. Specific updates
include:

Nest Weave – Developed by Nest and previously used in only Nest
products, this communication protocol lets devices talk directly to
each other and to Nest products. Nest Weave solves many issues
associated with connecting products in the home, including the ability
to connect power-constrained devices as well as devices that require
low latency and redundancy. The Linus lock by Yale is the first Works
with Nest product to use Nest Weave.

Nest Cam API – The new camera API lets developers connect their
products to Nest Cam for the first time. August, Mimo, Petnet, Philips
hue and Skybell are the first third-party products to launch Nest Cam
integrations providing improved safety and awareness in the home.

Works with Nest Store – The Works with Nest Store is an online
catalog of all Works with Nest products. Nest developers can apply to
have their products featured in the store so that customers can easily
find and use them.

More than 11,000 developers have accessed Nest’s APIs to connect with
Nest products, through the cloud – and 1 in 8 Nest homes are using a
Works with Nest integration. Developers have built everything from
appliances that know not to run when energy prices are high – to light
bulbs that flash when there’s smoke in the house. Now, Nest Weave gives
developers an entirely new way to work with Nest.

With the addition of Nest Weave to the Works with Nest program, any
product – even power-constrained ones – can connect with Nest. Through
Nest Weave or Nest’s cloud APIs, developers can access Home and Away
states, smoke and carbon monoxide alerts, motion and sound alerts, and
peak energy
rush
hour events to create interesting and meaningful integrations across
iOS, Android and the Web, while still maintaining control of their own
user experiences.

In addition, developers can integrate their products with the Nest app
and apply to have them included in the Works with Nest Store. And to
help grow their businesses, developers can leverage Nest’s relationships
with more than 40 retailers across 8,000 stores, professional
installers, and energy companies around the world. Developers can visit
developer.nest.com
to get started.

“Building a connected product is hard,” said Matt Rogers, vice president
of engineering, Nest. “We’ve been doing it for the past five years and
have first-hand experience with the challenges. That’s why we want to
make it easier for developers. We’re offering proven technologies like
Nest Weave, along with cloud services and the ability to integrate with
the Nest app. Developers have an end-to-end solution when they work with
Nest, and can use only the parts of the program that meet their needs.”

Nest Weave: Secure, robust, reliable communications for the home

Nest Weave provides direct device-to-device communication securely and
reliably across networks in the home, including Wi-Fi and Thread. Unlike
existing communication protocols, Nest Weave is reliable, compact,
secure and scalable. With a simple software update, devices can use Nest
Weave to talk directly to Nest devices.

Reliability – Nest Weave delivers reliable messaging across
multiple networks. And because it runs over
Thread,
it can work with a secure, self-healing mesh network. So even if one
device crashes or Wi-Fi goes down, other devices on the network will
keep working. This is especially important for safety and security
products, like smoke alarms or security systems.

Latency – Nobody wants lag time when switching on the lights or
unlocking the door. Nest Weave allows devices to talk directly to
other devices so they can interact with end-to-end latencies of less
than 100ms, even over a large mesh network.

Range – When Nest Weave runs over Thread, each powered device
acts as a wireless extender to route information. That’s critical when
Wi-Fi doesn’t reach every corner of the house.

Power and size – The Nest Weave communications protocol is
compact and runs on single MCU devices with as little as 64KB of RAM.
And a device using Thread and Weave can run on a single battery for
many years. This solves many problems for small, low-powered products.

Security – Rather than rely on only network security, Nest
Weave provides its own, independent, end-to-end application layer
security. The Nest Weave security stack also has application-specific
encryption keys, so a hacker can’t unlock the front door by
compromising the patio lights.

Simple setup – Pairing connected devices can be tricky. Nest
Weave lets people get connected right from their smartphones using the
Nest app.